Life after Alabama

Geneva,

So after working all day at the corporate office in Houston I flew to Detroit where I arrived at 12:30 am. Went home, showered, repacked, watched two hours of the death of Michael Jackson and went back to the airport for a 5:40 am flight to Tallahassee.

Jim picked me up there where we drove to Geneva (couple of hours). I worked at the office in Geneva half the day then went and signed papers at the bank. That was the gist of the visit. Now the house there is in good financial shape and looks great, which is awesome cause we want to sell it.

But it was really a roller coaster of emotions visit.

First of all, every time now that I go to Houston or Geneva it reminds me of being so painfully homesick. I spent about two years in each place and I’m still waiting for the time that I’ll look back on it fondly. I mean both places had their great attributes but being back home in Michigan is no comparison to any of their attributes.

Geneva was a cool experience in a small rural southern town. But true to form we stayed at the 12 unit motel in town cause of course everything is gone from the house. I needed to work so we asked about high speed internet and they assured me that they had it. Great. I wasn’t dressed to go into the office and preferred working comfortably from the hotel room. But I couldn’t connect. After about 40 minutes of trying I finally went to the front desk and asked. She said ‘yes, we have high speed wireless, but it’s not working’. Arrggh. So I had to go to a “Peebles” clothes store in town to get dress pants to go into the office and work.

But work was cool. When I left Geneva I thought it was possibly on flimsy terms with senior management. I had felt at that time that the company was not doing well, which it wasn’t by a long shot. Still isn’t either. So I told them what I believe (and still believe) they were doing wrong and I guess they didn’t want to hear it.

But…..time passes and now that I work for the corporate office my job is to go to our companies and deploy and support a new software program designed to help them out.

So, when I was in Houston I ran into my old bosses from Geneva. We sat outside of the hotel on a picnic table and drank beers and talked all evening and it was like old times with good friends. It was great to see the character development and starting fresh. It was also cool for me to be in a position to be able to help them out. Cooler yet to end every work week back home in the Detroit area.